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A new California burger restaurant claims a world first - the first restaurant where all ordering and meal production is fully automated. (misorobotics.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ignoring that mcdonald's "tier" fast food make up a significant portion of the world's restaurant ecomony:

Five Guys start from ground beef (depending on the restaraunt and other factors) but very specifically train workers to make 3.5 ounce burger balls https://www.insider.com/how-five-guys-burgers-are-made-behind-the-scenes-photos-2021-11
Breading fried chicken patties is pretty trivial. Like, do you think all the chicken tenders people live off of are made by hand?

And so forth. And it is pretty telling that you aren't even going to claim "real" restaurants where the chains often outright are just microwaving TV dinners

The vast majority of restaurants, fast or sit down, already are run by robots. They are just human beings who have had all the originality and autonomy beaten out of them rather than mechanized arms.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you just want to ignore the largest part of the point, why would anyone want to listen to you? It's like saying "Okay, this horrible thing is actually horrible, but HORRIBLE THINGS aside, isn't it still okay?"

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Okay. What is your actual point and what do you think I am arguing (I assume the inverse of the former but...)?

Because, so far, your counterargument mostly highlights a lack of understanding of what the service/food industry actually is and how little "human touch" is already involved in the food the world eats outside of hole in the wall eateries (that often have other, much more uniquely fucked up, labor issues).